I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
